Usage

At first, you have to create a PPD archive. For such, put all PPDs (they might
be gzipped) you want to add in the archive inside a single folder (which can
have subfolders), then run:

$ pyppd /path/to/your/ppd/folder

It’ll create pyppd-ppdfile in your current folder. This executable only
works with the same Python version that you used to generate it. You can test
it by running:

$ ./pyppd-ppdfile list

And, for reading a PPD from the archive, simply do:

$ ./pyppd-ppdfile cat pyppd-ppdfile:MY-PPD-FILE.PPD

For CUPS to be able to use your newly-created archive, copy pyppd-ppdfile
to /usr/lib/cups/driver/ and you’re done.

The generated pyppd-ppdfile can be arbitrarily renamed, so that more than
one packed repository can be installed on one system. This can be useful if
you need a better performance, be it in time or memory usage. Note that also
the PPD URIs will follow the new name: